Berlin – Todenhöfer is the editor of the “Friday” – Süddeutsche.de

Jakob Augstein engaged in the controversial journalists for its weekly newspaper. Because Todenhöfer shy “is no discussion and no personal risk -”

Jakob Augstein know to market yourself – what is the use, however, especially him as a columnist and talk show guest, and less of its 2008 purchased left of the Berlin weekly newspaper Friday. Now Augstein, since 2013, editor-in-chief has arranged a member of staff who calls the Friday to: Jürgen Todenhöfer, 76, will be at the beginning of the year, publisher.

What connects Augstein and him: they polarize. Todenhöfer, of course, still stronger than Augstein, who praises him as a “combative spirit and independent mind”: The former CDU member of the Bundestag and many years of Burda-the Board interviewed the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, solid joined with the political will o ‘ the wisp singer Xavier Naidoo and came last because of Doubts as to the authenticity of an Al-Nusra commander, introduced the interview partners in the criticism.

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Todenhöfer shy “is no discussion and no personal risk”, suggests Augstein whose validity need to the quality: “With these properties todenhöfer fits perfectly to the Friday.” Whether the weekly benefits of his calling really is not yet identified.